Massage as a Mechanotherapy for Skeletal Muscle

Massage is a mechanotherapy that promotes recovery of skeletal muscle after damaging exercise and disuse atrophy. Massage is anecdotally associated with many health benefits, but physiological and clinically relevant mechanisms recently have begun to be investigated in a controlled manner. Herein, we describe research supporting our hypothesis that massage can be used as a mechanotherapy imparting biologically relevant adaptations in skeletal muscle and improving muscle properties.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  Exercise and sport sciences reviews

• Publication date

  2021-04-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1249/JES.0000000000000244PMID 33720912PMCID PMC8320327
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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